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HEEL COUNTER.

No. 350,618. Patented not. 12, 1886.

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LOUIS core, or s'r. HYAGINTHE, QUEBEC, CANADA.

HEEL-COUNTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 350,618, dated October 12, 1886.

Original application filed June 29, 1885, Serial No. 170,125. Divided and this application filed January 30, 1886. Serial No. 190,371.

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To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS COTE, of the city of St. Hyacinthe, in the county of St. Hyacinthe, Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Heel- Counters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

I would in the first place state that the present invention-is a subdivision of the subjectmatter of the application for a patent, Serial No. 170,125, filed June 29,1885, andfor which Letters Patent have been granted to me on the 11th day of May, 1886, under No. 341,459.

This invention has reference to the production of heel-counters, similar but being an improvement upon those counters a patent for the mechanism for forming which was granted me on the 19th day of June, 1883, under N o. 279, 717.

I will first describe my improved counter forming the present invention, and afterward a mechanism suitable for forming my saidimproved counter.

In the drawings hereunto annexed, similar letters of reference indicate like parts, and Figure 1 is a side elevation, part in section, of a mechanism suitablefor forming my improved counters. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a diagram of the old method of arranging the mechanism heretoforeinuse. Fig. Lisa diagram of a heel-counter. Fig. 5 is a plan of a piece of stock cut to the desired shape to form a counter. Fig. 6 is a diagram illustrating an endeavor which has been made to. overcome the objections existing in the old counters, which objections are removed from the present counters. Fig. 7 is a diagram showing the effect of the stretching-of the material at the edge M.

Heretofore a piece of material cut to the c011- figuration shown in Fig. 5,after its bottom edge,

, 0, had been crimped in the ordinary manner,

was passed between a revolving spherical form- 'er,D, and a corresponding stationary mold, E,

the said former and mold being situated in relation to one another, as shown in Fig. 3that is to say, with a space, F, between them, which space F was equal on the sideHto that on the side G. The piece of stock shown in space F, the piece of stock was compressed and rolled equally all over and brought to the configuration of a counter similar to thatshownin Fig.4, taking the dotted line K as'the forming part "of its outline. 1

Many or mostof the counters formed as j ust above mentioned were found to havea number of wrinkles (indicated by the dotted lines J) at the back of the heel-counter and at the upper edge thereof, thus weakening the counter. It was also found that the counters were too much contracted at the back upper part, as indicated by the dotted line K, whereas to properly fit the heels they should have the configuration given to them indicated by the solid line L. Various experiments were made to overcome these objections, one of which was to cut the pieces of'stock out of which the counters were formed to the configuration shown in Fig. 6, instead of Fig. 5. The configuration shown in Fig. 6 was not only more trouble to crimp the lower edge of, on account of its not being straight, but it also consumed more stock to form a counter; also, this did not remove the objection before referred to, of the wrinkles at J and the undue contraction indicated by the dotted line K. I willnow describe the arrangement and action of the mechanism shown in Figs. 1 and 2,

by the use of which my improvedheel-counters are formed.

A is any suitable frame, in which is carried by journals B in bearings O a revolving shaft,

0; One only of the journals B and bearings O is shown. On the shaft 0 is secured a former, D, similar to-those heretofore in use.

' E is a mold similar to those heretofore in use,

and set in relation with the former D, as heretofore in use,and shown in Fig. 3, with the exception that instead of the recess of the mold being set concentric with the formerD itis set eccentrically or unevenly, so that the space F, instead of being a parallel or equal one, as shown in Fig. 3, is now an unequal one, being narrower at one side than the other, as shown. The side at N is considerablysmaller than the side at P. The amount of this uneven setting of the former and mold,or amount of inequality of the space F, will depend upon the thickness and nature of the material to be formed into counters; but it must be such as to have the desired effect upon the material, and this effect I will now describe. The piece of material shown in Fig. 5 being passed longitudinally between the former and mold shown in Fig. 1, is so placed that the edge M will pass through the narrower part N of the space F, while the edge will pass through the wider part P of the space F. By the proper relative placing of the position of the former and mold the one to the other the effect produced on the piece of stock shown in Fig. will not only be to curl or form it into shape, but also to roll with such force as to permanently stretch that portion of the stock adjacent to the edge M in the center part of the counter, or, say approximately the part of the material about and above the line 00 in Fig. 5. The action of extending the ma terial beginning at or about the line at in Fig. 5, which line will be situated according to the shape of counter required, gradually thehigher and nearer we come to the edge M,by which gradual increase extension of the material the hereinbefore-mentioned desired effect is produced without forming any creases or ridges upon the surfaces of the counters.

The counters forming the present invention may be readily distinguished from those made in the manner or by the means heretofore in use, because by measuring the thicl ness of the material at the center of the upper part of the edge M, and comparing it with the thickness of the material at or about the linem. it will be found that the material is thinner at M than at the line as, and this is one criterion for shov; ing

the difference between the counters heretofore made and those of the presentinvention. As another and unfailing criterion by which the real and substantial difference in the counters made according to the present invention differ from those made heretofore can bescen, is that if the counters heretofore made be taken and damped and flattened out they will return to the same configuration that the piece of material had or was cut to beforeit was pressed into the shape of a counter, while the counters made according to the present invention will come substantially (more or less) to the form shown by solid lines in Fig. 7, instead of coming to the form shown by dotted lines in that figure, which is the shape the piece of material outof which it was formed was cut to, showing clearly that in the one case the material has been permanently stretched at the edge M, and in the other case that it has not.

I am aware that it is not new to cut a piece of material to shape and press it into the form of a counter.

What I claim is as follows:

As an improved article ofmanufacture, a boot or shoe heel counter, substantially as shown, having its upper part,'or th at part ol'it lying between the upper edge, M, and line as, permanentl y compressed and extended, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth t LOUISOOTF].

W'itnesses:

CHARLES G. G. SIMrsoN, H. DORVAL. 

